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Keep Counting

grampslcf June 10, 2026 No Comments

Previously we have talked about the ballot count in California’s primary. Late arriving ballots always inflate Democratic totals at the expense of Republican candidates. Counting will continue until key Republicans no longer sit in the first two finishing spots. Then counting will end.

Some will claim that Republicans are more likely to vote in person than Democrats. While that may be true, it would seem that this would not have much impact in a state where 90% of the people are mailing in their ballots. Is the argument now that Democrats are holding onto their ballots until the last minute and then sending them in?

And The Count Goes On

grampslcf June 9, 2026 No Comments

The ballot count in California’s primary continues as the Democrats harvest ballots in an attempt to close out any opposition. Late arriving ballots always inflate Democratic totals at the expense of Republican candidates. Counting will continue until key Republicans no longer sit in the first two finishing spots. Then counting will end.

Odds & Ends

grampslcf June 6, 2026 No Comments

John Bolton agrees to plea deal.

Bolton was charged for allegedly sending “highly sensitive” classified materials to family members from a private, unsecured email server while he was working at the White House during the first Trump administration and using classified documents to write his book titled “The Room Where It Happened.” The FBI raided Bolton’s home last summer, where they discovered classified emails.

Bolton is facing 0 to 5 years in jail and has agreed to $2.25 million in fines. ...

Judges Decide Military Fitness

grampslcf June 5, 2026 No Comments

One of the first things that PDJT addressed upon taking office in 2025 was the issue of military readiness and fitness. The services had suffered from failure to meet recruiting goals, from a lack of unit cohesion and from becoming an experiment in DEI ideology.

To fundamentally transform our military back into a lethal fighting force, PDJT selected Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. The department has since been transformed into the Department of War.

Hegseth has done what he was asked to do. Along the way Hegseth determined that allowing individuals with gender dysphoria to serve diminished the military’s effectiveness. The result was an executive order banning such individuals from being part of the military.

Voter Roll Fraud

grampslcf June 4, 2026 No Comments

The protests against removing violent criminals from our country continues at Delany Hall in Newark. The question that has to be asked is just what are these protests trying to do? What scandal are these protests designed to distract the public’s attention from?

Stop Pretending

grampslcf June 3, 2026 No Comments

June is here and with it the usual screeching about Pride month although the wide-scale corporate support that used to be present just a few short years ago has largely disappeared. What has caused this dramatic turnaround? It couldn’t be the absolute lunacy of the trans movement, could it?

De-MAGAfication

grampslcf June 2, 2026 No Comments

This is not a new idea. Several democratic politicians have suggested the re-education camps will be needed once they return to power. In June 2024, Paula Collins a New York Democratic Socialist candidate for the US House of Representatives, called for re-educating the MAGA movement if a blue wave materialized.

Collins realized the mistake in phrasing that she used but doubled down on the idea. Said Collins, “Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through, as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating basically, which, that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want call it that. I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.”

Fortress America

grampslcf June 1, 2026 No Comments

Mike Steger takes less than 17 minutes to walk through a year of President Trump’s multifaceted U.S. manufacturing policy initiatives that have positioned the U.S. economy for a massive surge in growth. Steger recaps several consequential moves by President Trump and his cabinet to fundamentally change economics in the Western Hemisphere. Each point is well delivered and well presented.

Disparate Impact

grampslcf May 30, 2026 No Comments

Disparate impact, also called adverse impact, is a judicial theory in U.S. law that addresses practices that are facially neutral but have a disproportionately negative effect on members of legally protected groups, such as those defined by race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or disability status under federal civil rights laws.

US Oil Production

grampslcf May 29, 2026 No Comments

Sky News economics and data editor Ed Conway has produced another short and information filled segment looking at how the U.S. become the biggest oil producer in the world. Well worth the 5-minutes. This video helps to put into context many of the geopolitical shifts currently underway around the world.